The hardest part is getting up from bed. Everything else is much easier.
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You may, in fact, want to consider medication
Serious answer, it's called behavioral activation, and it means you just do it without thinking about what's going to happen next. Sounds dumb but it works, and it's the basis of "mindfulness" which you've heard so much about, the opposite of anxiety and dread. Just do what you're doing. Whatever comes next, you can do that then, but don't think about it now because it's not happening now.
I also find this is a good way to cope with being born into slavery.
That's the neat part. There is no point. You get to define what matters in your life!
Optimistic nihilism. 💫
(this is not meant to downplay the real strife brought about by the rich trying to min/max society and looking at human beings like expendable resources)
I also feel like evrything is so difficult, and I wonder how people can do stuff. It feels like time pass faster for me. I struggle with basic stuff and lose so much time trying to simply do my basic survival, that when I'm finally ready to do something for the day, it's already in the afternoon. Fells like something is deeply wrong with me
Fells like something is deeply wrong with me
I don't have an answer, but I can tell you, you are not alone in that feeling.
And remember, if people make you feel like you're not enough, there's a good chance they're just dealing with their own bullshit in their own head.
It doesn't make it okay, but I sometimes find it comforting to remember.
Thank you for your words
That sounds like me during my decades of raw dogging ADHD and a bouquet of comorbidities.
It can still be that way for me, but with medication and vigilance and mindfulness and constantly trying to reverse engineer my brain/body's needs, I had a much more productive 2025 than previous years. (productive at the things I care about, not just becoming a good cog in the machine at work)
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Legitimate, if you have not already and have access, see a doctor about ADHD. You sound a lot like me and this is what I was diagnosed with when I described these symptoms to a psychiatrist. I'm also autistic but these symptoms don't sound like autism.
Seconded. This sounds so familiar
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Because we are slaves, and we can work or die. Those are our choices until we start killing a lot of rich people
Because we are slaves,
This. The whole talk about medication is drapetomania in disguise.
killing a lot of rich people
Can't support that
Can’t support that
Why?
Because one day they might be rich and they would want that excess power unchecked
Have school-aged kids. Getting up early will become the best part of the day. The silent first coffee before all hell breaks loose.
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I whiteknuckle through it and I'm pretty sure it's killing me
There's no way I'm reaching 50 without a stroke or a heart attack
It's like trying to swim upstream while almost drowning all the time
Life is hard.
Spite.
Careful. From experience, when spite fails, it shatters.
This is pretty much it. I do it because fuck you.
While I also work on trying to unionize my entire industry.
Drugs.
Even the hard stuff you can half-ass if you don't give a shit.
You don't have to be perfect, nobody is.
Been avoiding the hard things for years.
Doesn't solve jack shit, but it buys you another day at least.
Have you tried taking on crushing debt?
Ask your doctor if constant overwhelming financial pressure is right for you.
Spite, mostly.
It's a valid survival strategy
The need to pee
Need to eat, need to drink, need to pee, need to play, need to do, need to create, need to live.
It's always needs.
(at least for me)
Because the alternatives, so far, are worse.
Get high and do it for the dog
Only 8 hours until I get to go home and be myself!
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